End of life care for patients must improve, doctors group says - It comes amid a warning that too often this phase of someone ...

A popular misconception of palliative care is that it only has importance toward making patients comfortable at the end of their lives, noted a palliative care physician on the first day of the ...

Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life for people with serious illness. It includes discussion of treatment goals, pain management, and relief of symptoms such as depression ...

Care at the end of life should recognize, assess, and address the psychological, social, spiritual/religious issues, and cultural taboos, realizing that different cultures may require ...

Nationally, about 90 percent of adults say they would prefer to receive end-of-life care at home, according to data from Medicare and reported by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Foundations have been awarding grants in the fields of palliative and end-of-life care for a number of years. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) work may be best known.

Early receipt of palliative care appeared linked to less aggressive end-of-life care for women with ovarian cancer, according to study results.“Our findings suggest that the timing of palliative ...

Palliative care for inoperable biliary tract cancer (BTC) reduces the use of aggressive chemotherapy at the end of life as well as the risk of death in the emergency department (ED) or intensive ...

This matched retrospective cohort study examined the effect of an encounter with palliative care on health-care use at the end of life among 6,580 Medicare beneficiaries with advanced prostate, breast ...

Most large hospitals now have a palliative care program. Susan Block, a psychiatrist at Dana-Farber, has shared a checklist of questions for terminally ill patients, which helps with conversation.

Advance Care Planning, End-of-Life Care Advance care planning is a process of communication between the person with metastatic breast cancer, their family and loved ones, and their healthcare team.